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RE: 2/5 Rankings: UC #6, WSU #22, Houston Receiving Votes
(02-05-2018 02:26 PM)C0|db|00ded Wrote: (02-05-2018 02:10 PM)rosewater Wrote: (02-05-2018 01:43 PM)C0|db|00ded Wrote: (02-05-2018 01:22 PM)stxrunner Wrote: (02-05-2018 12:38 PM)C0|db|00ded Wrote: Not just beat, destroyed. Perhaps the weakest #6 team in the history of rankings?
What's even more hilarious is how on earth we're still ranked. We're barely a top 40 team right now.
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I see we've reached the stage in the tantrum where we are tearing everybody else down now.
I'm not there yet. I still have a grasp on objectivity, but it is tenuous.
You'd have to walk a mile in a Shocker's shoes to feel what we feel. A typical Shocker team (by typical I mean what we have been enjoying the last half decade) would have beaten the Temple team I watched on television the other day by 30. Yes, yes... I know Temple has beaten some solid teams at different points in the year. But the Temple team I watched the other evening would have been beaten into submission... similar to what we did to Houston at home.
We've shown flashes of our old self this year, but mostly it's been on and off, on and off, like a flickering light bulb nearing the end of its journey.
The vast majority in this conference have seen maybe half a dozen Shocker games over the years. Frankly, you all are not even qualified to speak on the issue of what the Shockers can and can't do. We KNOW what all of the AAC teams have done over the last half decade save for UConn... and that's nothing.
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Reading this post gets to the crux of the problem. You are not used to quality basketball. You do not see the nuances between AAC and Mvc athletes. When Rose was elevating over you Thursday, you harken back to the Mvc set shot shooter. I bet you believe that George Miken and the Minneapolis Lakers would beat the contemporary LA Lakers. Well good luck, you have been exposed.
I've never once said that the MVC (on average) has better athletes than the AAC. What I've said is that the correlation between winning games and the number of athletes on a team does not have a high confidence level outside of the most elite conferences. This is evidenced by the Valley's winning record against the AAC.
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You mean in the two games this year. I suppose Loyola has a better program than Florida, because they won this year.
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